I made my own RFID poker table
Hey, my name is Ivo and I'm a startup enthusiast. I'm a huge poker fan and I've been watching poker streams for a while. I always wondered how they do it how they display those cards on the screen, do they have somebody watching the cameras and entering all this data manually, is there a fancy image recognition AI model in the background? It appeared to be much simpler with the help of RFID. Each card has an RFID chip with a unique ID, and each player has an RFID scanner below the table, once the scanner detects the cards voilà we know what card the player has. Once I found how it worked I…
I made my own RFID poker table launched on May 7, 2024 with 11 votes, #1,156 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Ivo built a custom poker table that uses RFID chips embedded in cards to automatically detect and display player hands during streams. Each card contains a unique RFID identifier read by scanners beneath the table, with a Node.js application converting the data into card information, player details, and odds calculations. The system eliminates manual card entry or image recognition, making it practical for poker streamers who want to show hole cards to viewers in real time.
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Hey, my name is Ivo and I'm a startup enthusiast. I'm a huge poker fan and I've been watching poker streams for a while. I always wondered how they do it how they display those cards on the screen, do they have somebody watching the cameras and entering all this data manually, is there a fancy image recognition AI…
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